I received a Ph. D. from Rutgers University (1997) and a B.A. in History with a specialization in Latin America from the National University of La Plata, Argentina (1988). My teaching focuses on Latin America, international migrations, and comparative history. My research interests include transatlantic migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; immigration in Argentina and Latin America in general; comparative migrations; migrant correspondence; and memory and oral narratives of migration.

My publications include books on company towns in global perspective and Portuguese migration to Argentina, and numerous articles on migration history. My current research focuses on migrants' correspondence, transnational families, and migration, identity and community formation in Patagonia.

During the 2013-14 academic year, I was in residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), in Wassenaar, as a EURIAS Senior Fellow. See a article on my research published in the NIAS newsletter here.

Courses

During the Spring 2013 semester, I participated in the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic, a faculty-student collaboration that explored the multiple connections built by migration and other contacts in France, Morocco, and Spain. You can visit the Mediterranean Migration Mosaic blog by clicking here.

I have also worked on other courses that explored comparative migrations in collaboration with faculty and students, including fieldwork and archival work. See the links for the Patagonia mosaics (2001, and 2003/2005) and the Mexican Migration mosaics (2003).

An Argentine Mosaic: Destino Patagonia, 2009. Co-produced with Susan Rose. Bilingual documentary about the Argentine migration experience, focusing on the oral histories of migrants to the Patagonian town of Comodoro Rivadavia and its oil company towns.
(Watch a 10-minute clip)

“Portuguese Labor Migration in Northwestern Europe since the 1950s: The Example of France and Germany," in The Enclopedia of European Migration and Minorities: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Klaus Bade, Pieter Emmer, Leo Lucassen, and Jochen Oltmer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

“Network Migration, Marriage Patterns, and Adaptation in Rural Portugal and Among Portuguese Immigrants in Argentina, 1870–1980,” The History of the Family: An International Quarterly 8, 3 (2003): 445–79.

“Migration Systems in Southern Portugal: Regional and Transatlantic Circuits of Labor Migration in the Algarve (18th–20th Centuries),” International Review of Social History 45, 2 (Aug. 2000): 171–208.